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No kid should have to cry over a fake present. This is just wrong.
I wonder how sensitive is this toy to vibrations.
Hm...it's every 60 years but it's actually the year of the fire pig, not the golden pig.

http://www.asianavenue.com/home/news/article.html?news_item_id=117110

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Many folklorists say, however, that this Golden Pig craze has been blown out of proportion and also question its origin. They suspect that it might even be a myth propagated by countries like China and Korea to increase a falling birth rate or a ploy by baby-related industries to make more money.

In an article in Donga-Ilbo, folklore Professor Kim Myeong-ja of Andong University in South Korea said, “The Year of the Golden Pig, already commercialized in China, seems to have been spread in Korea by industries related to child birth.”

According to Chinese astrological calculations, 2007 is really not the year of the Golden Pig but the Fire Pig. The lunar calendar has a 12-year cycle of animals that runs along a cycle of “Five Elements”—metal, wood, fire, water, and earth. Notice there is no gold here. Perhaps since fire is red (related to money in Chinese tradition) and yellow (the color of gold), 2007 has also been heralded as the year of the Golden Pig.

Ironically, Chinese astrology shows that the upcoming year of the Fire Pig is full of chaos since the pig is considered to be a “water” animal that clashes with fire, water’s polar opposite. Accordingly, the Fire Pig year is full of turmoil such as earthquakes, political upheavals, and conflicts in relationships.

If many couples still decide to believe the Golden Pig myth, 2007 still may become a tumultuous year considering the increased number of babies that might be born into competition with each other, thus messing up curves for tests and making it harder to get a job after college for millions of golden pigs.
Sweet. It could make a cheap (if it's cheaper) USB-KM for my desktop and laptop.
for a computer to beat a go player, i say it wouldn't happen within the next fifty years. there are more possibilities in go than there are atoms in the universe. unless quantum computing is able to increase the computational power 100 folds, even the best go program cannot beat an average player
i'm more interested in arcadizing a console game
Is the camera lens exposed all the time like in the first photo, or is it because it is on?
DarkMirage, there is no such official stance. In fact the official stance is that possession of pornographic/uncensored files are not allowed. What this means is that even casual viewing is officially not allowed as most internet browsers will download content to the hard disk. Unless you are using a LiveCD or you have set your hard disk cache to zero.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I commonly need to boot a system from an external disc and take a snapshot of the host system. I also then need to burn a copy of the image to a DVD. While I can do it with two separate external devices, and two power supplies, and two I/O cables, it'd be nice to find a small dual-drive enclosure. It would need to have USB, eSATA, and FireWire. Either slim-line or half-height bay for the optical burner would be fine, and space for either a 2.5- or 3.5-inch hard disc. Any ideas?"
 

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